I would say it looks suspicious. 
http://grist.org/news/divine-intervention-pope-opposes-fracking/
Posted on 11/14/2013 9:37:49 AM PST by GIdget2004
Pope Francis has already become a favorite of progressives with his fairly open-minded statements on homosexuality and birth control. But that adoration may go into overdrive, now that the Pope has adopted a new role as an environmental crusader, too. On Monday, the Pope was photographed with environmental activists holding T-shirts with anti-fracking slogans.
The photographs were taken after a meeting in the Vatican on Monday in which the Pope spoke with a group of Argentine environmental activists to discuss fracking and water contamination. He reportedly told the group he is preparing an encyclical -- a letter addressing a part of Catholic doctrine -- about nature, humans, and environmental pollution.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.foreignpolicy.com ...
In matters of petroleum engineering, not so much.
Who does he think should win Dancing with the Stars?
Now that he is going to start talking about things he has no business talking about.
Good grief. He must be hobnobbing too much with His All-Holiness Bartholomew (a.k.a “Black Bart”), who took up environmentalism in a big way, I think because it was the only sphere of politics the Turks would let him be active in.
(And yes, we Orthodox tend to give deprecating pet names to our hierarchs when they take positions whose consonance with Holy Tradition is dubious — the EP who introduced the New Calendar and broke the unity of the Orthodox Church in America by setting up the Greek Archdiocese in parallel to the existing Russian hierarch tends to be uniformly referred to as “Patriarch Miletius of Sorrowful Memory” in many circles of the Church (not just among adherents of the Old Calendar, either).)
He should stick to issues in his area of expertise.
You're right. But I've been saying that for years whenever bishops or the Pope make statements about economics or military affairs. My book on the morality of the use of nuclear weapons was intended as a direct rebuke to the American bishops for their stupid encyclical on war.
Are you claiming the picture of him holding the anti-fracking T-shirt is photoshopped?
I would say it looks suspicious.
http://grist.org/news/divine-intervention-pope-opposes-fracking/
Note the Daniel in the above post is not me, but was included in the pasted coding. .
LOL
I found it in a used book store in Shepherdstown, WV. Intriguing title ... bought it ... EXCELLENT!
A sincerely held belief requires action. He has been fooled like so many others. We need to open his eyes to the lies couched in scientific terms and presented as facts.
He will consider the evidence; it is likely he has only seen the lies to this point.
“No Al Fracking”
The Pope later commented that he is sorry for any harm that he may have done to the petroleum industry, as he was led to believe that the shirt was from an anti-homosexual organization. /s
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